Phung-Tien Phan *1983, Germany. Lives and works in Essen

CV

    2026

    • Flotsam/ Jetsam, The Last Straw, San Francisco group
    • Pauli-Preis 2026 Exhibition, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen group
    • Between the Acts, Bistro21, Leipzig group
    • The Wooden Brain, Case Chiuse by Paola Clerico x Agata Milizia, Milano group
    • Beau Travail, Gabi, Leipzig group
    • HOUSEKEEPING IN A DANGEROUS TIME, Sapieha Palace, Vilnius group
    • Ruhrmetall, Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf group
    • La Maison des Rendez-vous, Paul Soto Gallery, New York group

    2025

    • Full of debt, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo solo
    • Life After Life, 15th Kaunas Biennial, NGO Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas group
    • Curated by, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Vienna group
    • kein Charakter , Schiefe Zähne , Berlin solo
    • Rushes, Fluentum, Berlin group
    • Echo's Hunger , Schiefe Zähne, Berlin group
    • doesn't work, Project Native Informant, London solo

    2024

    • YOURS, Organized by Schiefe Zähne, 11 Ave Parmentier, 75011, Paris group
    • A String of Tongueless Beils , Francis Irv, New York group
    • Follow the Feeling, Times Museum, Guangzhou group
    • It's not you it's me, Sentiment, Zürich group

    2023

    • November, July, August, September, Tokyo group
    • Der pinkelnde Tod or what the dead do, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld group
    • INTERESTS, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin group
    • Kartoffel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel solo
    • Biennale für Freiburg, Freiburg group
    • Sneckdown, Institut Valencià de Cultura, Valencia group
    • Vessels & Catastrophes, Mélange, Cologne group
    • is blue, Édouard Montassut, Paris solo

    2022

    • OPENING NIGHT, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin group
    • Autofiction, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam group
    • Modernistin, (with Niklas Taleb), CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux solo
    • How to (not) fit in, Villa Merkel, Esslingen group
    • Found and Lost, (with Marina Xenofontos), Goethe-Institut, Cyprus solo
    • Times Museum, Guangzhou group
    • G2 #18 M I X E D F E E L I N G S, Hildebrand Collection, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig group

    2021

    • STOP DREAMING, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin solo
    • Fassaden, Elvira, Frankfurt group
    • Sweet Lies - Fiktionen der Zugehörigkeit, Ludwig Forum, Aachen group
    • Fire demands its Fuel, at the invitation of Drei & Markus Lüttgen, Mönchengladbach group
    • July, August, September, Hospitality, Cologne group
    • Chernobyl Papers, Chernobyl group
    • Open Office, Arcadia Missa, London group
    • Tourism, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus group
    • All Corner Made to be Leaned, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne group
    • Taking my Thoughts for a Walk, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund group

    2020

    • should we get lunch, I want to burn this place down, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg group
    • Café Chardonnay - alles nehmen, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg solo
    • Bureau de Change, Campoli Presti, London group
    • Kasten, Stadtgalerie, Bern group

    2019

    • biste links oder frustriert, Drei, Cologne solo
    • Pogo Bar: bandwagon nr. 1, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin group
    • This sweet, will one day be yours, Werkhalle, Cologne group
    • Galeria Half Moon, (with Whitney Claflin), Drei, Cologne solo

    2018

    • Inaugural Exhibition, Root Canal, Amsterdam group
    • Trust Camp Normal,  Essen group
    • Safety First, (with Niklas Taleb), Aedt, Dusseldorf solo
    • Trust Camp Club, Essen group
    • I was a teenage medium, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow group
    • Junge Kunst am Moltkeplatz, Skulpturenpark Moltkeplatz, Essen group
    • Trust Camp Vision, Essen group
    • Die Idee der besten schlechten Idee, 8. Salon, Hamburg group

    2017

    • Harmoniemusik und Vogelschießen, Shanaynay, Paris group
    • Was kost die Welt, Belle Air, Essen group

    2016

    • Black Dahlia Quest, Roland Garros, Essen group
    • Peter-Mertes Stipendium, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn solo

    2015

    • Landhaus Schwerte Ergste, Belle Air (Bel Ètage), Essen group
    • Wasting Time on the Internet, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf group
    • What a b what a b what a beauty, Off Raum, Frankfurt group

    2014

    • living stills – Neue bewegte Bilder im Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen group

Education

  • 2017 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf

  • 2014 BA Photography, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen

Curatorial Projects

  • 2020 should we get lunch, i want to burn this place down, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

  • 2018 Trust Camp, Exhibition Series, Essen

  • 2014 - 2017 Co-founder of Belle Air, an artist run space, organized and curated by New Bretagne (Frieder Haller, Anna-Lisa Högler, Phung-Tien Phan, Alexander Schöpfel and Niklas Taleb), Essen

Selected Press